Contract requests redone, no more loyal superstars

malichai11 · 03-22-2018, 04:29 PM

I used to like to handicap myself by forcing my owner spending to 1 and my market size to 1 but that has now turned into far too large of a handicap because your drafted superstars are now requiring MASSIVE contracts. No more signing a player after 2-3 mediocre years to a semi-reasonable long-term deal. You're paying the full freight now, regardless of when you sign them and almost regardless of their loyalty/greed. You want that 80/80 low-greed high-loyalty batter signed after 1 year? 220m/10 years. YOUCH! 70/80 pitcher was able to get for 99m/10 years after year 2. Gotta be careful of those rebuilds now because if you don't start winning and getting your spending up you're going to be losing your players because you simply can't afford them.

Will be using arbitration a lot more now as opposed to focusing on young, durable, rising-potential players and signing them to long-term deals.

edit - Not a complaint! I love this. Anything to make it more difficult I appreciate, even if some of these players are making risky decisions. Dude turned down a 150/10 year deal and ended up making 900k, 1.2m, and 1.5m those first 3 years. He's going to have to make 147 over the next 7 to make up for what he missed with the guaranteed money which I'm going to be watching carefully. My free agents might be in that phase where they don't realize the entire market has changed. I hope he doesn't get Mike Moustakous-ted

03-22-2018, 04:29 PM	#1
malichai11 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 282	Contract requests redone, no more loyal superstars I used to like to handicap myself by forcing my owner spending to 1 and my market size to 1 but that has now turned into far too large of a handicap because your drafted superstars are now requiring MASSIVE contracts. No more signing a player after 2-3 mediocre years to a semi-reasonable long-term deal. You're paying the full freight now, regardless of when you sign them and almost regardless of their loyalty/greed. You want that 80/80 low-greed high-loyalty batter signed after 1 year? 220m/10 years. YOUCH! 70/80 pitcher was able to get for 99m/10 years after year 2. Gotta be careful of those rebuilds now because if you don't start winning and getting your spending up you're going to be losing your players because you simply can't afford them. Will be using arbitration a lot more now as opposed to focusing on young, durable, rising-potential players and signing them to long-term deals. edit - Not a complaint! I love this. Anything to make it more difficult I appreciate, even if some of these players are making risky decisions. Dude turned down a 150/10 year deal and ended up making 900k, 1.2m, and 1.5m those first 3 years. He's going to have to make 147 over the next 7 to make up for what he missed with the guaranteed money which I'm going to be watching carefully. My free agents might be in that phase where they don't realize the entire market has changed. I hope he doesn't get Mike Moustakous-ted Last edited by malichai11; 03-22-2018 at 05:08 PM.